IFAD
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IFAD-financed projects support rural poverty reduction and agricultural development in Kenya
Publicado el 6 Dic 2018 - 10:50According to the report's findings, IFAD has been innovative in bringing solutions around credit delivery, agro-processing and environmental management -
Bolivia and IFAD team up to improve the lives of rural poor people
Publicado el 29 Nov 2018 - 22:42Bolivia is one of the world's 10 most affected countries. It is predicted that the negative impact on the economy will decrease the country’s GDP by an estimated 10% in 2020 -
Women lead a revived honey industry in the Solomon Islands
Publicado el 5 Nov 2018 - 21:42By the end of 2019, women in Simbo are projected to be annually producing more than SI$500,000 worth of honey. -
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Publicado el 18 Oct 2018 - 03:57The UN estimates that some 783 million live below the international poverty line, the majority in rural areas in East Asia, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. -
Celebrating the International Day of Rural Women
Publicado el 16 Oct 2018 - 07:24Rural women manage natural resources, adopt climate-resilient agricultural approaches, preserve biodiversity and agriculture productivity -
Pakistan: Breaking the cycle of poverty
Publicado el 10 Oct 2018 - 08:49Their families are so poor that they cannot access the necessary resources to improve their lives. In turn, this makes them poorer and spins them into an unbreakable vicious. -
World Water Week: Promoting sustainable irrigation by focusing on ecosystems
Publicado el 11 Sep 2018 - 09:38Over utilisation of water and poor water management, by agriculture, have been linked to depleting groundwater resource and reduced water quality, leading to damaged ecosystem -
Why smallholder farmers are the key to combating global warming
Publicado el 23 Ago 2018 - 00:22The world faces a rising population, rapid urbanization, climate change, declining soil fertility and increasing demand for food and fuel. All of this puts pressure on land. -
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Publicado el 14 Ago 2018 - 03:52Indigenous peoples’ face systematic human rights violations, dispossession and discrimination which can compel them to move or migrate -
What do rural women want?
Publicado el 8 Mayo 2018 - 07:45"Rural women want information. Their main area of work is farming but they lack basic information on the best ways to grow and maintain their crops"